Recent Additions
Pigeon Hoo
A novel of a young couple moving to a farmhouse in Tenterden in the years after the Great War
Franklin Lushington, dustwrapper by R Hartman
Faber & Faber, London, 1935
£50.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Masquerade; The Lives of Noel Coward (Signed copy)
Signed by Oliver Soden
Oliver Soden
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2023
£25.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Magic of Reality (Signed copy)
Signed by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins, illustrated by Dave McKean
Bantam Press, London, 2011
£30.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now: Seven Scenes from the Life of a House
A sumptuous history of the Derbyshire house
John-Paul Stonard, foreword by The Duke of Devonshire & The Duchess of Devonshire photography by Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Art Direction by Huw Morgan
Particular Books, London, 2021
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Reminiscences of My Fifty-Five Years in Chile and Peru (Signed copy)
Signed by William Russell Young, published in 1933
William Russell Young
Sociedad Imprenta y Litografia Universo, Valparaiso, 1933
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
One by One
1965, Penelope Gilliatt's first novel
Penelope Gilliatt
Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Pillion Riders
A first printing of Elisabeth Russell Taylor's novel of the conflicting demands of passion and morality
Elisabeth Russell Taylor
Peter Owen, London, 1993
£15.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Wizard from Vienna
Franz Anton Mesmer and the Origins of Hypnotism
Vincent Buranelli
Peter Owen, London, 1976
£15.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
A Cookery Book for the Tropics
1962, a collection of African recipes
Mrs Adebisi Vincent, with a foreword by Dr Soyode Franklin
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1962
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Food & Drink | Soft Cover | First Editions
Unfree in Palestine (Signed copy)
Signed by Adah Kay, 'Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction'
Nadia Abu-Zahra, and Adah Kay
Pluto Press, London, 2013
£20.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Journal of a London Playgoer
1974 edition of Morley's account of theatre trips 1851–1866
Henry Morley, with an introduction by Michael R Booth
Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1974
£10.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance
1924, a first edition of Ford Madox Ford's memoir
Ford Madox Ford, also given as Ford Madox Hueffer
Duckworth & Co, London, 1924
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
Gardening for Pleasure
A 1903 guide to gardening from American horticulturalist Peter Henderson
Peter Henderson
Orange Judd Company, New York, 1903
£20.00
Gardening | Hard Cover
Athletics
1929, a first edition of this scarce survey of the sport
D G A Lowe, and A E Porritt
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1929
£20.00
Sports & Hobbies | Hard Cover | First Editions
An Unabridge Japanese-English Dictionary
1896. the first edition but in poor condition
Captain Francis Brinkley, and F Nanjo & Y Iwasaki, with the cooperation of K Mitsukuri & J Matsumura
Sanseido, Tokyo, 1896
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Language | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Lambretta Serviceman's Book
2nd edition, c1960, a decent copy
D B Palmer, photography by K G Palmer
Lambretta Concessionaires Ltd, Croydon, 1960
£25.00
Transport | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
Sophie Ryder (Signed copy)
A study of the sculptor's work, signed by Sophie Ryder
Jonathan Benington
Lund Humphries, London, 2001
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Potters at Rye, an original watercolour by Dennis Townsend
Included are original documents relating to Denis Townsend, founder of Iden Pottery
Dennis Townsend
Original Artwork, Rye, 1955
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Artwork | Soft Cover
Die Vielgeliebte Frau; George Sand und ihre Freunde in Briefen und Dokumenten
Signed by Lili Turel, one of only 20 copies in a hand-made leather binding
Lili Turel
O C Recht Verlag, Munchen, 1922
£50.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
British Campaigns in the Nearer East 1914–1918
Volume 2: The Tide of Victory, from the Salonica Campaign of 1916 to the Armistice
Edmund Dane
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919
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Military & War | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Innovative Surface Structures
Technologies and Applications
Martin Bechthold
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, 2008
£35.00
Architecture & Design | Soft Cover | First Editions
Poems
A scarce early title from mystical poet Amy Key Clarke
Amy Key Clarke
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1922
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Aeschylus and Athens
George Thomson's study of Athenian drama and democracy
George Thomson
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1973
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper
The Fighting Maroons of Jamaica
1969, a history of the renegade slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Carey Robinson
Collins & The Book Society, London, 1969
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Book of Dogs (Signed copy)
Signed by Stanley West, a thorough guide to breeds, showing, training etc
Stanley West, foreword by Jerrold Vassall Adams, photographs by Walter Guiver.
Alexander Ouseley, London, 1935
£30.00
Animals & Pets | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions